Aren't the map results organic?
Just because they're displayed in a different form doesn't make them any less organic.
Excuse Me, But Where Did Google's Organic Search Results Go?
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Re: Excuse Me, But Where Did Google's Organic Search Results Go?
#22It looks like the results are actually good. If you are searching for dentists in a particular area, chances are you would also like to see them on a map.
To me it is a case of Google trying to give a good search result - but using another Google app. And in the bargain raising eyebrows. But if you compare it with Bing, the difference between ads and results on Bing is even harder to make out.
I am sure this will draw antitrust eyebrows too. Here Google of course is promoting their map application with local listings and reviews. They might actually believe that it is the best way out there to give local listings with reviews etc. But it kind of forces everyone to add reviews in Google map which in turn will actually become the best even it is not right now. And apps like yelp will slowly be forced out of reckoning.
Re: Excuse Me, But Where Did Google's Organic Search Results Go?
#23I think even if you get the organic results, they are not organic enough. I searched for "django video tutorial" earlier today. The first organic result? A link to the official django docs and that page does not even include the word "video".
Unfortunately you gotta do this these days: +django +video +tutorial
http://www.google.com/search?q=%2Bdjango+%2Bvideo+%2Btutoria...
There's probably a Greasemonkey script for this somewhere that can automatically get this old behavior back for you.
Re: Excuse Me, But Where Did Google's Organic Search Results Go?
#24The results shown on the map are organic!
Re: Excuse Me, But Where Did Google's Organic Search Results Go?
#25I thought everybody had agreed that "above the fold" means nothing.
Re: Excuse Me, But Where Did Google's Organic Search Results Go?
#26Even more alarming is when Google sprinkles shopping links inside the organic results! I recently did a search for "calculator" and the 3rd listing (inside the organic list) was a Google shopping box of links. This really upset me, but what can we do?
I think you are confused. Google shopping results are not paid advertisements.
Re: Excuse Me, But Where Did Google's Organic Search Results Go?
#27I think even if you get the organic results, they are not organic enough. I searched for "django video tutorial" earlier today. The first organic result? A link to the official django docs and that page does not even include the word "video".
My first result for the same search:
http://www.google.com/search?q=django+video+tutorial
was this page:
http://showmedo.com/videotutorials/video?name=1100000&fr...
Is it possible they fixed the results since you searched?
Re: Excuse Me, But Where Did Google's Organic Search Results Go?
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wonder how long it will take them to get slapped by someone though? In the UK papers have to clearly identify adverts if presented in an editorial format. Why do google get away with presenting adverts as search results without clearly identifying them? A greyed out 'sponsored link' in the right hand corner is just pathetic, I bet most users don't even understand what that means.
It might take a while before Google get negative wide spread reaction or loose of revenue just due their reputation build over the years and innovative drive. However, in competitive market and emerge of hungry start ups looking for new business it might come as an opportunity for others
Not sure why this was downvoted, good point I think
Re: Excuse Me, But Where Did Google's Organic Search Results Go?
#29I thought everybody had agreed that "above the fold" means nothing.
Yes, all the recent user research we've done (I work at Yahoo) says that users have got a lot more comfortable with scrolling since Nielsen's original research in the 90s. We officially Do Not Care About The Fold now.
Anecdotally, for some applications (documentation, news) a single really long document is preferred to lots of pagination. I haven't seen research to that effect though.
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#30From the article: "Update: it looks like Google claimed the phone number removal was a bug, but weird timing that the bug appeared at the same time they started selling premium local ads that appear on the regular search results." Why is it weird timing that a bug would appear when a system is being modified? Isn't that pretty much when most bugs are introduced?
Umm, don't you think they have a regression test that checks if everything that's supposed to be displayed in a search result is actually displayed?
Seems like they're stretching the definition of bug here. Maybe a bug in the specification, almost certainly not in the code.